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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What an excellent point.

    Have to get to know the business owners in your own community and figure it out yourself perhaps!

    I suppose a study could figure out average impacts though, via random sampling? Not sure how my source had calculated it.

    Additionally, local people own just as many shares in large chains as anyone else.

    You mean our neighbors own stock of Wal-Mart so shopping there is beneficial that way?

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I think that saying shopping at Wal-Mart is “beneficial” might be a bit of a stretch, I just mean to say that when someone says “shop at a locally owned store so your money stays local” they’re really saying “shop in my store so I get your money”. What most people don’t realise is that their pension plan (called super in Australia, 401k or something in US?) probably owns a bunch of shares in Wal-Mart, so you may as well shop there if you’re a part owner.